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and I do further state that [[strikethrough]] after the payment [[/strikethrough]] my taxable property does not amount to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and that I do not come within any of the exceptions of the President's Proclamation of the 29th of May 1865
Very Respectfully 
S W Armistead

State of Virginia Elizabeth City County to wit
Notary Public  I  W R Willis [[strikethrough]] Justice of the Peace [[/strikethrough]] in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Saml W Armistead whose name is signed to the foregoing statement and who is known to me as a gentleman of high respectability, and whose statements are worthy of all credit personally appeared before me in my said county and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement. Given under my hand this 7th day of November 1865

W. R Willis Notary Public [[strikethrough]] J P [[/strikethrough]]

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